Ageia has announced their progress with the PhsyX physics accelerator card, and the Software Development Kit that goes with it. City of Villains is ready to incorporate the technology into their game as soon as people have the card installed. They aren't going to stop at PC's either, their card, and the drivers will be supported on consoles as well!

nVIDIA has beat Ageia to the punch by partnering with Havok to create their own Physics Accelerator Card. By using SLI, they can have one GeForce card working on the graphics, while the second is devoted to physics. As well, it can be implemented on a single card, with some cycles devoted purely to graphics, and others to the physics calculations. [H]ard|OCP explains further here.

"ATI's latest offering, the Radeon X1900 XTX is strong, but it does have its weak points. We already covered the lack of performance with texture dependent games in our last article. Now we discovered that ATI's adaptive antialiasing is not as effective as NVIDIA's transparency anti aliasing.